WebMail settingsHow to change
your email settings.


Part one. "EMAIL PREFERENCES"
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Every FamilyWay customer has a WebMail account.
Click on (WebMail) to get to the sign in screen
To start with, Log in to your email account as usual,
entering your Email name and password.
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  • Once the main email window has loaded, look along the taskbar (button menu) at the top for the second to last icon at the right, labelled 'settings'.
  • Click on the icon and a new window will appear. 5 tabs are located in this window, along the top of the screen which control :
    1. EMAIL PREFERENCES,
    2. LAYOUT/COLOR,
    3. EMAIL DIVERSION,
    4. MAIL SECURITY, AND
    5. FILTERING.

  • Clicking on each of these tabs will bring up a window which describes each of these features and which settings may be changed within that set of features.

    In this tutorial we will be concentrating on the first tab entitled;
    EMAIL PREFERENCES.
    (Click on this tab to open the window if it is not already displayed).
    Under the EMAIL PREFERENCES tab, several categories appear.

  1. At the very top is your ACCOUNT name. (your email address appears here).
    Note; this is a fixed category and can not be modified from this field.

  2. Just below that is a field box for DISPLAYED NAME. This field controls the name which appears on your outgoing emails. Eg. If your account name is WilliamSmith@familyway.net, but you want everyone to call you 'Bill' you might want to change this DISPLAYED NAME field to 'Bill Smith'.

  3. The next field is the REPLY TO field, which allows you to specify if you would like your return mail sent to an address different from that which it was originally sent. This is valuable if you are travelling and may not have access to your regular email service, but will have access to a public computer that will allow access to a web based email address such as a hotmail account. You can also set this to your familyway email address.

  4. In the SORT EMAIL BY field, you can control how your email is sorted. This can be helpful particularly if you save a lot of emails and need to keep track of them by date, subject, or individual who sends them to you. OR... if you want email from other accounts or family members to go to seperate folders.

  5. DEFAULT FONT STYLE is a somewhat lesser important category and is self explanatory. Simply choose which font style you enjoy and would like for your email to be displayed.

  6. SERVICE LANGUAGE is defaulted to English, but if you speak a different language, or would like to practice one, then you may adjust this setting . (There aren't very many options here, but how many languages do you speak anyway)?

  7. The next field is the INBOX REFRESH RATE. This field can be important to adjust if you receive a lot of important email or are anxiously waiting to hear from someone while doing some other task. By adjusting the refresh rate, you can control how often your service checks for new incoming mail. This automation is convenient so that you don't have to remember to check manually while doing something else. If you receive a light amount of email or are not particularly anxious to hear from someone, a longer refresh rate is desirable (or you can even disable the refresh option altogether). If on the other hand, you are dying to get that new recipe sent to you from Grandma, set your email to refresh every five minutes, so that you get your email hot off the presses!

  8. The NUMBER OF MESSAGES TO DISPLAY field, will control how many emails appear in your window. If you don't like clutter, keep this number low. If your motto is 'the more the merrier' than go for it!

  9. The SELECT TIME ZONE field will control the time information associated with your incoming and outgoing email. Setting this would be important if you need to know exactly when an email arrived, or if you need the recipient of your email to know in which time zone you are located.

  10. The next five categories are simply checked or unchecked fields: If you would like to receive a MESSAGE POPUP window to tell you when you have received an email, then check this field.

  11. Similarly if AUTO DELETE TRASH is checked, then as indicated, your trash email will be swept away automatically with you having to worry about it. (Don't you wish it was that easy in your kid's rooms?)

  12. DELETE TRASH ON LOGOUT is much the same, except that the cleaning process does not occur until you have logged out of the system.

  13. If you would rather edit your email using the HTML EMAIL EDITOR, "for those who understand HTML code", then select this option, other wise leave it unchecked for plain text.

  14. If you would like a new window to popup for every email message, then check the box for NEW WINDOW POPUP, otherwise, leave it blank.

  15. And last but not least, is the option allowing you to attach an EMAIL SIGNATURE. This can be the most interesting option of all. Leave your friends with words of inspiration or wisdom at the end of every email message that you send. For some people, it is nice to change this signature often. For others, they simply want to 'make their mark'. Business' use this option to attach their contact information nicely to the end of their emails.

    Finally: Make sure that you click the button at the bottom of the page that says SAVE SETTINGS. That's all there is to it! If you want to make more changes, simply start over and save again at the bottom of the page.


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